Good idea Barry, especially as 'Rosso Bianco' is now gone. I have several I took there in the early 90s.
Also some have temporary exhibits such as the Mercedes one at Donington now. We can record them here! Perhaps we can include static shows here too such as exhibits at Stoneleigh?

Fabrizio Violati in San Marino has his Maranello Rosso collection which features Ferrari on one floor and Abarth on the lower floor. Everyone talks about the Ferraris but the Abarths are something else. He has around 40 of them starting from a very rare Cisitalia-Abarth to the most modern prototype sports cars. If you are going on holiday to Rimini, and are fed up with the beach and the crowds take the road from there towards San Marino and just as the dual carriageway begins to climb look out for the Maranello Rosso sign.

Ferrari 250LM, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, July 1989. The car is painted like the NART 250LM that won Le Mans in 1965 with Gregory and Rindt. I have no idea if it's the actually winning chassis, but it was presented as such.

Also visible are a MkII GT40 (1032 I believe, painted as a look-alike of the 1966 Le Mans winner), a Grand-Sport Corvette (IIRC) and a Mercedes W196 Stomlinenwagen (IIRC again).

Originally posted by Gary C Here's a very rough Lotus Elite from the Sanxet Museum the other week.

which the museum owner reckoned was ex le Mans when I spoke to him 2 or 3 years back, just like his claim for the AC Ace, the nearest to that claim being if they were in the Sarthe car park, I suspect. At least it was a "new" car to the AC Ace Registrar.

Please note also the Ghia-designed-steel-bodied Jowett Jupiter, ex Monte Carlo Rally next to it. Rough but interesting as a piece in itself IMHO

Ed Nankievell, the Jupiter Registrar, knows all about it

Did you photograph the 1920s Citroen coupe, fascinating little car, like a Bugatti tank with a roof on. ?

I knew I had it somewhere. That's me sitting on the right - I'd love to tell you who the others are, but I am hopeless with names. I do, however remember going to work at 8AM on the Wednesday and not leaving till 2 o'clock on the Friday night to ride my Vespa 20 miles home, and running out of fuel after 1/2 mile - It took us about an hour to find some petrol and suitable oil in a car factory!

The Lotus in the Ford Museum is the Lotus 38 with which Jimmy won the 1965 Indy 500. It appears that they have cleaned it up from the last time I saw it there several years ago. At that time it appeared rather tatty and neglected.

When I was nobbut a lad, I sat in the ex Fangio Mercedes, like the one illustrated earlier, at the Montague Motor Museum, much to the annoyance of the jobsworths (I didn't know you weren't supposed to, I was only 10) - loved those tartan seats!

It's a very special place, with a lovely laid-back atmosphere. You can get very close to the cars and really look closely at them. I was there on a nice quiet morning and there were only a few other punters in. There's a very magical feel to some of the cars and it's very hard not to feel humbled by some of the - the wreckage of David Purley's LEC just to give an idea of the violence of the accident he survived, and the Roger Williamson display just to emphasise how much the sport (and Tom Wheatcroft in particular) lost with his passing.

There are a few oddities there - the Iso-Marlboro nosecone in amongst the Marlboro BRMs, for a start! - but it's a splendid museum and I think anyone with a love of racing should try to get there.

I understand that Tom himself can often be found in there (I think Doc Knutsen found him in the café one day!)

Please note also the Ghia-designed-steel-bodied Jowett Jupiter, ex Monte Carlo Rally next to it. Rough but interesting as a piece in itself IMHO

Ed Nankievell, the Jupiter Registrar, knows all about it

Roger Lund.

Isn't that the Jupiter that turned up in that huge mysterious collection in France in the early 1980s, later to be seen in Sarlat ? If so, I would think that it is rather a very early Ghia Aigle body, not a Ghia Torino body.

I remember that there was quite a discussion about Ghia Aigle in the mid 80s in C&SC as it was not recognized as a stand-alone body builder but rather seen as affiliate to Ghia of Torino. In the meantime, there is a webpage tracing the history of Ghia Aigle: http://www.ghia-aigle.info/

It should also be noted that they operated as Ghia Lugano at some point in time and often used the term "Ghia Suisse" when presenting in a more International environment (like the Salon de Genève or de Paris).

Originally posted by David Beard Photos from my album taken with my Kodak Brownie Cresta 3 circa 1963. This is the Montague Motor Museum when it was housed in a large wooden hut, without the gimmicks to be seen at Beaulieu today.

D Type asked for captions: if they are wrong, bear in mind that I wrote them when I was 14, please! (Sorry, don't think thumbnails would be good for this one,when opened up in Image Shack)

[i]Originally posted by r.atlos
Isn't that the Jupiter that turned up in that huge mysterious collection in France in the early 1980s, later to be seen in Sarlat ? If so, I would think that it is rather a very early Ghia Aigle body, not a Ghia Torino body.
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rudi, you are probably correct, but I just repeated what it said on the card on the car. Please e mail me and I will send some photos of the car

Started going through my hard drive as I thought I'd pick a picture from each museum I'd visited which weren't on my site (link in previous post). Was a bit surprised at how many different Museums I'd been too.

Ah, but which Talbot Lotus Sunbeam is it? A few years ago we had a motor club visit to the Midlands. In the morning we visited the David Sutton Collection in Daventry, where we found Henri Toivonen's 1980 RAC Rally-winning car:

In the afternoon we went to the Coventry Museum of British Road Transport, where (like Mark A) we found - errm - Henri Toivonen's 1980 RAC Rally-winning car:

Looks like the same one going by the Registration Plate. It does say Henri Toivonen on the side of the pic Mark posted and it has Lombard Rally stickers too. Anyways it is great to see pics of one of favourite cars of my childhood